For the Australian Financial Review, Angus Grigg examines the two-year campaign against social media and online expression launched by Xi Jinping soon after he became president. Grigg looks at the impetus for the crackdown and its success in silencing some of China’s most outspoken online writers and commentators, including Han Han, Charles Xue, and other lesser-known writers. He also looks at the impact the campaign has had on the decline of Weibo. Zhan Jiang, a professor